408 Provincial Court Proceedings, i6?p/So.

Liber W. C.

according to Certificate to have runn our East south east Course
from thence by reason of the Creeke and Marsh Wee could not runn
out the Line accordingly, Wee therefore psecuted the aforesaid Sur-
vey from the aforesaid Chestnutt oake East southeast for the
Length of five hundred perches into the woods, Thence South untill
it intersect a paralell drawne to Hampton Creeke, And Whereas
Henry Hardy did Carry us to a Spanish Oake Standing upon a
Pointe Neare the Mouth of Batchelo" Creeke on the south side of
the said Creeke & proved it by the Oathes of Robert Robins &
Thomas Craxtone to be the reputed bound tree to the best of their
knowledges betwixt the Lands of Thomas Batchelo^r and Richard
Watson any time this Twenty yeares. But wee Could not finde the
said Tree to stand any way in the lines of either Tract of Land
according to Certificate as by the Surveyo^rs plotts will more Plainely
appeare, And Now Whereas wee have Runn out the aforesaid Two
Parcells of Land by the surveyo^r in the p^rsence of the sheriffe afore-
said, Wee did also Runn out the One hundred and fifty acres of
Land in the posession of Henry Hardy & now the Land in Question,
By the oath of Thomas Shuttleworth wee finde that Richard Watson
did bound Thomas Peircey when hee Sould him the said parcell of
Land at a bounded beech standing by the side of a branch that faileth
into the Beaver Damm, runing thence south thirty six pches to a
bounded oake, Notwithstanding the said Watson did but sell him
Tenn prches. (And that Henry Hardy did by the Order of Thomas
Peirsey bound the aforesaid two bound Trees himself, And from the
said Oake runing west Two hundred eighty and foure perches to the
Marsh by y^e Creeke side, thirty six perches short of his number
exprest in his patient & in the Conveyance from Richard Watson
to Thomas Peircey aforesaid, But wee Could not prosecute the sur-
vey any further because of the Marsh and Creeke, And further wee
Juro^rs aforesaid Sayes That wee did not finde or anywayes pceive
That the said Philip Lines hath Comitted any Trespasse Either upon
Watsons Land or the Land of Henry Hardy now in Question
In Witnesse whereof the Sheriffe aswell as the Surveyo^r w^t*¹ the
Juro^rs have hereunto sett their hands and seales the day and yeare
first above written
W^m Chandler sher (sealed)
Rand^o Brandt: Dep: Sur: (sealed)
James Neale (sealed) Arthur Turner (sealed)
Jn^o ffaning (sealed) W^M Hatch (sealed)
James Beamount (sealed) Mevorel Hulse (sealed)
Tho: Clipsham (sealed) Edmond Dennis (sealed)
Tho: Gibson (sealed) ffrancis Wyne (sealed)
Ralph Smith (sealed) Cleoborne Lomax (sealed)

And Whereupon the said Philip Lines by his Attorney sayth That
hee the said Henry Hardy his accon aforesaid against him the said